The strength of the brain

1999/10/01 Elhuyar Zientzia Iturria: Elhuyar aldizkaria

• Medikuntza

Laboratory rats are able to move the mechanical lever just by thinking.

The first rats were taught to touch the lever and get food, while placing the electrodes on the head to measure the activity of neurons that control muscle movement. The next step was to connect the movement of the lever to the electrodes and the rats learned to activate the lever without using the legs, taking advantage of the mere activity of the brain, that is, just thinking. Of course, its application to human beings can have enormous potential in the communication of patients like tetraplegic, to control from a point different tools... Last winter a similar essay was known.

The electrode and a small radio transmitter were incorporated into the brain into a tetraplegic and just thinking, so to speak with "telepathy", since there were no wires, I was learning how to move the cursor of the computer.